Relating to the disposal or storage of high-level radioactive waste.

Summary

This bill prohibits the disposal or storage of high-level radioactive waste in Texas, with a narrow exception for university-operated nuclear facilities. The legislation amends the Texas Health and Safety Code to create an exemption allowing universities that currently or formerly operated nuclear power reactors or nuclear research and test reactors to store high-level radioactive waste, but only at the specific reactor site where the waste originated. The bill explicitly prevents the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality from issuing permits for high-level radioactive waste facilities under various water pollution control programs, except for these university reactor sites, and establishes that no person, including compact waste disposal facility license holders, may dispose of or store such waste in Texas outside of the permitted university exception. The legislation takes effect September 1, 2025.

Bill history

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    Effective on 9/1/25

Votes

Historical import. Session: 89R